... The Bateman. and the Bargeman. By F rank Richardson. SCENE: The production of Beauty and the Barge at the New Theatre. The first piece is over, and there is in the house an unmistakable but indescribable atmosphere of success. The audience is moving into the stalls in palpable confi dence of spending a pleasant evening. Most of the men are nut-brown those women who have the courage to be ...

... g mi, I iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I Illllllllllll 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 M II M 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 U I I I By Mostyn. T. Pigott. SCENE: A carriage in a train fairly full of holiday- makers. On the platform are crowds of people who have apparently no desire to enter this or any other train. In a corner facing the engine sits a tired- eyed serious man just off to the country for a ...

... CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. BY FRANK RICHARDSON. ACT I. SCENE The dining-room at 48, Deanery Street, Mayfair. Lord Walter Gayford has made very little headway with his breakfast. He is a good-looking, good- natured young man whose hideous past is still going on. He is reading the Daily Mail with a pained expression as though attempting to solve a break fast-table problem. Lady Walter, a charming ...

... DRAMATIC DIALOGUES. BY FRANK RICHARDSON. BJo. 50„-- Tlhe SiSsag ff Cs=ainao Mr. W. L. Abingdon, the most eminent theatrical villain of our day, is walking up the Haymarket. There is a scowl on his clean-shaven face. The passers-by shrink from him. But the scowl is not caused by the mental incubation of crime; he is merely reflecting on what will win the three o'clock race. Police constables on ...